- Roses and weeds are contrasting ideas, yet they are both used to describe “children.”
- Choppy syntax : 1) “‘Ready?'” 2) “‘Now?'” 3) “‘Soon.'” 4) “It rained.”
- Setting : Venus
- Anaphora : “with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers…”
- Rain is a common occurrence.
- Children are all same age.
- Everything is a routine.
- Children have a faint memory of the sun since they only recall it as a “yellow crayon” or “coin.”
- They only have an idea because they learn about it through text and class.
- Margot – frail girl who looks gloomy
- Metaphor : “She was an old photograph dusted fro an album,” “her voice would be a ghost”
- No one looks at or cares about Margot.
- Margot was excluded because she is from Earth and she remembers and knows about the sun.
- Truth is denied because there are more numbers of fake.
- Margot says sun is like a fire, but no one believes her.
- The children are not compared to positive objects.
